In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

But she has no great tenderness even in her best of moods, and, sooner or later—oftener soon than late—is apt to fling off her nestlings with a scratch of her claw, a dab of her beak, or a rankling wound from her barbed arrows.

Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.

You burrow and rankle in his heart!

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Her insults still rankle in my mind.

Administrators are rankled by the drop in their school’s ranking in US News.